If you were of the world, the world would love its own. But because you are not of the world, but I chose you out of the world, for this [reason] the world hates you.

[when we are] slandered, we encourage. We have become like the refuse of the world, the offscouring of all [things], until now.

He was in the world, and the world came into being through him, and the world did not recognize him.

For God did not send his Son into the world in order that he should judge the world, but in order that the world should be saved through him.

I have given them your word, and the world has hated them, because they are not of the world just as I am not of the world.

Do not love the world or the things in the world. If anyone loves the world, the love of the Father is not in him,

They are from the world; {therefore} they speak from the world and the world listens to them.

And he said to them, "You are from below; I am from above. You are from this world; I am not from this world.

While I am in the world, I am the light of the world."

Now is the judgment of this world! Now the ruler of this world will be thrown out!

And if anyone hears my words and does not observe [them], I will not judge him. For I have not come to judge the world, but to save the world.

Now before the feast of Passover, Jesus, knowing that his hour had come that he would depart from this world to the Father, [and] having loved [his] own in the world, loved them to the end.

I have gone out from the Father and have come into the world; again, I am leaving the world and am going to the Father."

I have said these [things] to you so that in me you may have peace. In the world you have affliction, but have courage! I have conquered the world."

And I am no longer in the world, and they are in the world, and I am coming to you. Holy Father, keep them in your name, which you have given to me, so that they may be one, just as we [are].

They are not of the world, just as I am not of the world.

Just as you sent me into the world, I also have sent them into the world.

Jesus replied, "My kingdom is not of this world. If my kingdom were of this world, my servants would be fighting so that I would not be handed over to the Jews. But now my kingdom is not from here."

But the foolish [things] of the world God chose in order that he might put to shame the wise, and the weak [things] of the world God chose in order that he might put to shame the strong,

By no means [did I mean] the sexually immoral people of this world or the greedy people and swindlers or idolaters, since then you would have to depart out of the world.

Or do you not know that the saints will judge the world? And if by you the world is judged, are you unworthy of the most insignificant courts?

and those who make use of the world as [if they] do not make full use of [it]. For the present form of this world is passing away.

But [as] for me, may it never be [that I] boast, except in the cross of our Lord Jesus Christ, through whom the world has been crucified to me, and I to the world.

If you have died with Christ to the elemental spirits of the world, why do you submit [to them] as [if] living in the world?

Adulterous people! Do you not know that friendship with the world is enmity with God? Therefore whoever wants to be a friend of the world makes [himself] an enemy of God.

and did not spare the ancient world, but preserved Noah, a proclaimer of righteousness, {and seven others} [when he] brought a flood on the world of the ungodly,

because everything [that is] in the world--the desire of the flesh and the desire of the eyes and the arrogance of material possessions--is not from the Father, but is from the world.

But you [are] not [to be] like this! But the one who is greatest among you must become like the youngest, and the one who leads like the one who serves.

When I was a child, I spoke like a child, I thought like a child, I reasoned like a child. When I became a man, I set aside the things of a child.

But when I saw that they were not being straightforward with the truth of the gospel, I said to Cephas in the presence of [them] all, "If you, [although you] are a Jew, live like a Gentile and not like a Jew, how can you try to compel the Gentiles to live like Jews?"

And the appearance of the locusts [was] like horses prepared for battle, and on their heads [were something] like crowns similar in appearance to gold, and their faces [were] like men's faces,

And I heard a sound from heaven like the sound of many waters and like the sound of loud thunder, and the sound that I heard [was] like harpists playing on their harps.

And I heard [something] like the sound of a great crowd and [something] like the sound of many waters and [something] like the sound of powerful thunder, saying, "Hallelujah! For the Lord God, the All-Powerful, reigns!

that has the glory of God. Its radiance [is] like a precious stone, [something] like a jasper stone, shining like crystal.

because he was teaching them like one who had authority, and not like their scribes.

[It is] enough for the disciple that he become like his teacher, and the slave like his master. If they have called the master of the house Beelzebul, how much more the members of his household?

And they were amazed at his teaching, because he was teaching them like one who had authority, and not like the scribes.

And he said, "The kingdom of God is like this: like a man scatters seed on the ground.

The Pharisee stood [and] prayed these [things] with reference to himself: 'God, I give thanks to you that I am not like other people--swindlers, unrighteous [people], adulterers, or even like this tax collector!